Huge online bigfoot discussion

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    While browsing Reddit.com's archives I came across a very interesting post by username Mr_Bigfoot The author is conducting a Reddit event known as an "AMA", which is an abbreviation for "Ask Me Anything." Generally people who have interesting lives, jobs, etc, will participate in AMA sessions. This one turns out to be a particularly good read. The author claims to have "spoken on the existence of a species of bipedal ape living in North America on 60+ occasions for more than 5,500+ combined listeners." I found his arguments to be quite logical and his approach to the subject an appropriate mix of interest and lightheartedness. Even the behavior of the Redditors following the thread was rather civil. All in all, the discussion ended up being both educational and intriguing. It is a good example of how to present the idea of bigfoot to a group.

    Mr_Bigfoot, as with so many others, became interested in researching bigfoot after watching the famous television show "In Search Of..." 

    In the author's own words:

    "I began research, reasoning that if Bigfoot wasn't real, I didn't need to be afraid of the big guy. My research became a side hobby over the next several years. Six years later, I arrived at college. My friends wanted to know why I believed in such a thing, so I gradually developed a 45-minute multimedia presentation offering empirical support for the existence of Bigfeet. Over the following four years at college and in the three years since graduation, I've given my presentation many, many times (see title) and make biyearly camping expeditions into Eastern Oklahoma in search for physical evidence. It's a fun hobby." 

    The thread can be found here. Keep in mind it is is archived now, so current conversation is not ongoing. However, the discussion continued for quite a long time, reaching over an approximate four hundred posts. There is a lot to read. If any of you make it all the way to the bottom, you will become one of the few people to be able to claim having seen the bottom of a Reddit thread. (No mean feat!)

    Keep in mind that the thread was originally posted nine months ago, so some of the information and evidence the OP (original poster) presents and discusses in slightly out of date.

    Thanks for reading!

 - A.Z.